Asian Drama

Dong Goo, a lowlife thug, has always been living a hopelessly miserable life. One day, he accidentally obtains a bankbook with such a large amount of money as much as one billion won. He travels down to Busan in order to try to obtain the PIN number for the bank account. As Dong Goo meets the eight-year-old boy, Bok Gi, who believes Dong Goo is his dad, and the boy’s mother, Ae Sook in Busan, their story begins.

Duration: 1 hr. 40 min.

Ratings: 6.6

Two Chinese commercial vessels are ambushed while traveling down the Mekong River in the waters of the Golden Triangle, one of the largest drug-manufacturing regions in the world. 13 sailors are executed at gunpoint, and 900,000 methamphetamine pills are recovered at the scene. Upon discovery, the Chinese government immediately sends a band of elite narcotics officers led by Captain Gao Gang to the Golden Triangle to uncover the truth behind the murders. Tea field owner and Golden Triangle-based intelligence officer Fang Xin Wu joins the investigation. After it was discovered that the drugs seized on the Chinese ships had been planted by the henchman of a notorious drug cartel leader named Naw Kham, the governments of Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and China launched a joint task force to apprehend the criminal. The road to justice is, however, paved with dangerous and deadly obstacles...

Inspired by the true story known as the Mekong Massacre.

Seven years old, Hee Joo, loses her detective, single father to Ki Beom, a notorious serial killer who is caught after murdering his cheating girlfriend and sentenced to only 15 years in prison because the court failed to find evidence linking him to the other killings. Detective Dae Yeong takes in Hee Joo and raises her.

Fifteen years later, Hee Joo is the mascot of the police precinct, where she volunteers. When Ki Beom is released from prison, he gets complicatedly involved with the girl who has been waiting 15 years to find out who murdered her father.

Dispatched teaching staff member Nanami meets Tetsuya through SNS and decides to marry him. She doesn't have many relatives and turns to an agency called "Nandemoya", run by Amuro. She asks the agency to send people to her wedding and for some to pretend they are her relatives. Early in her marriage, Nanami finds Tetsuya having an affair, but her mother-in-law, Kayako, insists Nanami is having the affair. Due to this, Nanami has to leave her home. Amuro gives Nanami, who is in trouble, odd part-time jobs.

Private Detective Kiyoshi Mitarai and Miyuki Ogawa arrive in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture. They are interested in a case which involves discovered bodies. The bodies were found drifting in the Seto Inland Sea, where the currents repeat every 6 hours.

Pain and secrets brought them together. Lena is a Russian woman of Korean descent. Escaping a life of pain in Russia, she agrees to come to Korea as the bride of Soon Goo, a farmer who lives in the rural countryside. Dealing with his own painful memories, Soon Goo is happy to just spend time with Lena as they go about their simple lives on the farm. But as Lena’s feelings for Soon Goo deepens, she finds it harder for her to stay. Will Lena decide that leaving is the only way to deal with her feelings of guilt?

Continuing from previous installment... After a dying wish made a promise to fulfill, 'a past promise' becomes broken. Then comes the revenge from the hurt it have caused both of them.

Song Chen Yue has been in love with his best friend Su Yi since high school. However, his feelings are not reciprocated since Su Yi is madly in love with a classmate, Bai Yu, but his love for the boy is also an unrequited one. Tired of seeing the person he loves suffering, Chen Yue makes a deal with Bai Yu in order to make him agree to go out with Su Yi, offering him money to pay for the medical costs of his sick mother. Unable to refuse the offer, Bai Yu starts a relationship with Su Yi based on lies. Shortly after, Bai Yu disappears without giving any explanation. Three years later, Bai Yu reappears and Su Yi tries to resume his relationship with him, much to the chagrin of Chen Yue, who has not yet managed to confess his feelings for his friend. Meanwhile, Chen Yue's younger sister plans with the help of Bai Yu to have her brother confess to Su Yi by having them participate in a new virtual reality game called "Fanatic", which was being developed by her company.

Set in the year 1969 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.

Noma Kyoko is a loving female high school student who takes part in campus protests. One day, she meets university student Domoto Wataru in the tea cafe Mubansou ("A Cappella"). Kyoko falls in love with him, but they get involved in an incident that leads to a shocking ending.

Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and eventually marries her. Not longer after their marriage, he suddenly collapses and dies, leaving everything to Sayako. The rest of his family, including his daughter Tomomi, are left out of his will. Tomomi hires Honda, a private investigator, to find out more about Sayoko.

Meanwhile, Sayoko works with Toru Kashiwagi, the director of the matchingmaking service. When older wealthy men register for the service, she charms them until they eventually leave everything to her. Sayoko and Toru always split the spoils 50/50. After Kozo Nakase's death, Sayoko begins attending the matchmaking meetings again. Kiharu Funayama becomes her next target, but Sayoko sincerely falls for Kiharu.

Master Shinkome asks Shinden to find a former disciple, Shintoto, from his rakugoka (comic storytelling) family. Shinden visits ex-disciples in his search for Shintoto.

"‘A Gift’ is the next captivating offering from GDH honouring the King’s musical compositions by highlighting his songs within a cinematic symphony of romance, soul-searching drama and heartwarming humour. This film is dedicated to King Bhumibol Adulyadej as an end-of-year gift to all the people of Thailand.

The film tells the story of 6 people who are trying to overcome challenges that life has thrown at them. ‘A Gift’ is unwrapped for your viewing pleasure using a three-degree of separation narrative, divided into three parts and filmed by three different directing teams."

Yohei is a middle school teacher married to Miyoko. For the first time in 25 years, they begin to live by themselves after their son marries and moves out. One day, Yohei finds divorce papers which Miyoko keeps hidden, but he doesn't have the courage to ask her about it and agonizes over the papers. His involvement with students and associate in a cooking class, allows Yohei to recognize the concept of an ideal family. He takes new first steps with Miyoko.

Hye Ri, a TV reporter, decides to cover the story about a disabled run-away modern slave. She learns of suspicious activity related to slavery at salt mines on a remote island and convinces her camera man to accompany her to the site. She disguises herself as a producer for a documentary on salt mines and attempts to gather information through interviewing people of the island. However, the residents of the island deduce that she is not what she says she is and slowly turn aggressive toward her team.

Based on the "Salt Farm Slaves" scandal that shocked the world.

Futaba, whose husband suddenly left her one year ago, lives with her shy daughter, Azumi. When Futaba abruptly receives a diagnosis of a terminal illness, she aims to use the brief amount of time she has left to bring back her husband, restart the family's shut-down bathhouse business, and set Azumi on the path to independence.

Jang Sung Pil has worked as a little-known actor for the past 20 years, but he still dreams of becoming a great actor. He plays the role of Patrasche in the children’s play “A Dog of Flanders.” Watching Sul Gang Shik, who used to act with him before hitting the big time, Sung Pil decides to become a great actor too. When he is accused as an incompetent husband and father, he fabricates stories of filming a movie with famous actor Sul and director Cannes Park. To transform these troublesome lies into truths, Sung Pil begins a desperate journey to stardom, using every means possible.

Nine years ago, two high school girls in love came up with a whimsical idea to have a child together who would resemble both of them. Now one of them is getting married and it’s time to put their plan in action.

The official website for the live-action special-effects hero franchise Ultraman announced on Thursday that an Ultraman X film will open next spring. The Ultraman X television series just premiered in Japan on July 14.

Lu Feng and Xiao Chen are two university students who fall madly in love with each other. However, when their families discover them they oppose and try to separate them. Lu Feng's father sends his son to Hong Kong while Xiao Chen must face the prejudices and isolation he suffers in college because of his sexuality. Several years later, both young people meet again, but this time in a company as boss and employee. Both discover that they still feel love for each other and become lovers, but happiness evades them again. Their relationship soon becomes a disease.

Aya spends her days as she pleases living in an aging apartment with her older boyfriend Mr. Ito. Her peaceful days are upended when her father shows up at her place after getting kicked out from his son's home.

Nob leads a happy life in a small town with his wife and young son. But when his son dies and his wife leaves him, he is unable to cope. Even others in the village turn their backs on him. He becomes lonely and feels completely dejected. He plunges deeper and deeper into a downward spiral from which it seems he may not escape. That is, until a glimmer of hope appears in the form of a monk who encourages him to join the Buddhist priesthood.

Yukio Haruyama is an elementary school student. He has an uncle that teaches philosophy part-time at an university. His uncle leeches off his family. The uncle then goes on a blind date and falls in love with beautiful Eri Inaba. She is a fourth generation Japanese living in Hawaii. Sometime later, Eri goes back to Hawaii to take over a coffee farm left behind by her recently deceased grandmother. Yukio and his uncle travel to Hawaii to see Eri

An ancient supernatural being, a fairy fox, travels to the human realm and causes some mischief then develops feelings for a human man and atones for his misdeeds by saving the man and his future wife.

Fang Dong (Yang Run Kun) has everything going for him. He is happily engaged to Yu Ting (Yao Yuan), and his life is going well. But one day, he gets a prank call from Xia Xiao Duo (Zhang Hong Lei), and it unexpectedly changes everything. He drastically changes his views on life and love at the expense of his fiancée.

Two college friends Archi and Parshya, who belong to different castes, fall in love with each other. However, their relationship faces struggle due to the stringent practice of casteism.

Three men around a woman, and their unusual way of expressing their emotion.

In the center of Seoul, contrary to the fancy buildings, still, there’s a poor town called, Su Saek. And there are three special losers; Ik Joon, a gang expelled by laughing at leader’s funeral, Jung Bum, a North Korean defector with depression, Jong Bin, an epileptic who only drinks milk. They call each other patients. Three of them frequent a small bar in the town to win the heart of a charming bar lady, Ye Ri. They have their own issues to suffer but never blame anyone. They know how to forget things and laugh. One day, Ye Ri asks what they dreamed of last night. While each of them tells their nightmares, Ye Ri tells them she had a dirty dream; she made love to each of them…

(Source: KoBiz)

In a time when the main source of energy was still coal, there was a man who saw the future in oil. Young Tetsuzo Kunioka who hails from Moji, Kitakyushu, rides out into the oil business, but is faced with numerous challenges and competitors who stand in his way, including domestic suppliers and major western oil companies, or the "oil majors". But Tetsuzo never gave up, however despairing the situation was. He always found a way and paved a new road with his unconventional ideas, eccentric actions, and most of all, his caring heart toward his own men. That style of Tetsuzo's was not something that would ever change, even when the tides were against him in a war-lost Japan.

During the 1980s, the Korean government created a special summer camp for "gyopo" or foreign-born teenagers where they could spend their summer in Seoul to learn about their motherland. While the intentions of the program were honorable, the activities of the teens were not. The program was eventually canceled after a few years because the government simply could not control the youth.

Based on a true story about one of the summer camps that took place in 1986.

Jeong Woo is sent to a sanitarium deep in the mountains to overcome his alcoholism. There he meets a young nun named Maria who has a special ability to see inside people. In this isolated sanitarium, Maria is the only person who seems to care for him and soon he feels drawn to her. While struggling with his withdrawal symptoms, Jeong Woo has a vision where his reality is different from what he believes. The further he escapes from his alcoholism, the closer he gets to confronting the past that he has denied for years.

Happy Dorm is about a boys dorm who challenge a girls dorm that’s right next door.

Yagami Shinji is a university student. He is easily frightened, due to seeing ghosts. He has feelings for Nada Koyomi. To protect Nada Koyomi, Shinji and Koyomi join the occult research group at their university. They try to solve a mystery of the haunted campus with members of their occult group.

In the southern province of Chumporn in 1939, Khun Pan is a police detective who has defeated a gang of bandits despite having just one bullet in his pistol. Khun Pun is renowned for his sorcery and spells, which give him a supernatural protective power. After defeating the Pa Daeng gang, Khun Pan volunteers take on the most dangerous mission: to hunt the ferocious Alhawee Yalu, the dark lord of the southernmost provinces who’s also skilled in black magic and who spreads terror across the Budo Mountain. Alhawee Yalu is feared for his invulnerability – no bullets can hurt him – while his dagger is the most ruthless weapon.